Kiddie boat



April 28, 1925. 1,535,828

C. H. GUISCHARD KI DDI E BOAT File d Jan. 2. 1923 Snow H01;

61E im'snaral.

III

Patented Apr. 28, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. GUISGHARD, OF RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK.

KIDIDIE BOAT.

Application filed January 2, 1923. $eria1 No. 610,335.

To all whom it may concern: thereof is a foot bar 18 preferably extend- Be it known that CHARLES H. GUIsoHAnn, ing through a transverse opening in the a citizen of the United States of America, rocker and secured by a retaining screw 19, residing at Richmond Hill, in the county of the projecting ends of said bar forming foot Queens and State of New York, has inventrests for the occupant of the seat. ed new and useful Improvements in Kiddie Also carried by the base or hearing face Boats, of which the following is a specifica- "of the rocker near its front and rear ends tion. are the yielding cushions or bumpers 20 and The object of the invention is to provide 21, made of rubber or like material and sea simple, inexpensive and entertaining toy cured in place by screws 22 and 23. These of the vehicle type for the amusement and bumpers serve as checks to limit the swingexercise of infants wherein the sensation ing or rocking movement of the device and of progress may be realized without resort in the operation thereof the contact of the to the use of Wheels or like means of trans. forward bumper with the floor or other supportation and without the risks involved in porting surface, serves to cause a step by the ordinary forms of rocking toys; and step forward progress of the rocker on said with this object in view the invention consurface, which is sufficient to afford an at sists in a construction and combination of traction to the operator which is in excess of parts of which a preferred embodiment is that which would be afforded merely by the shown in the accompanying drawings, rocking or oscillatory movement of the toy.

wherein The location of the forward bumper adja Figure 1 is a side View partly broken cent to the foot rest serves to enable the opaway, and V erator of the device to control to some extent Figure 2 is aplan view of a toy embodythis forward progress and increase or dimin ing the invent-ion. ish the same as may be preferred by vary- Figure 3 is a front view of the same. ing the extent to which the weight is thrown The device consists of a segmental or upon said foot rests. crescent shape rocker 10 which is tapered Having described the invention, what is in width and thickness from its rear end claimed as new and useful is toward its front end and is cross-sectionally A toy having a crescent-shaped rocker tapered or wedgeshaped from its base or provided at its extremities respectively with outer periphery toward its inner periphery. a handle bar and a seat, foot rests extending Attached to the larger or rear end of the laterally from the rocker adjacent its front rocker as for example by means of a screw end, and front and rear yielding bumpers 11 is a seat 12 preferably having a forprojecting downwardly from the under or wardly directed pomniel 13 while attached bearing face of the rocker adjacent the front to the reduced front end of the rocker is an and rear ends, the front bumper being disupright standard 14 carrying a handle bar posed adjacent the foot rests whereby prcs- 15, the handle bar being extended through sure on said bumper may be regulated to an o mning in. the upper end of the standard effect a step by step forward progress of the and secured by suitable screws 1.6, and the rocker over its supporting surlace. standard being titted in a socket in the front In testimony whereof he allixes his si end of the rocker and secured by means of nature. a bolt.

Attached to the rocker near the front end CHARLES H. GUISCl-IARD. 

